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Building Capacity for Self-Efficacy
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Microcredential ID : 2877
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Instructional Coaching Endorsement: Adult Learning Theory
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0.5 USBE Credit

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Increasing educator self-efficacy increases educator effectiveness and supports student learning. This microcredential focuses on the ability of the instructional coach to support and build educator self-efficacy. Note that earning this Microcredential requires prerequisites as aligned with the USBE Instructional Coaching Endorsement and is intended as a competency path for an experienced instructional coach.

Building Skills for Self-Care: Self-Care Assessment and Improvement Strategies
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Microcredential ID : 2701
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Trauma-Informed Practices
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' instruction on self-assessment and self-care strategies for trauma. There are many students in our schools who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and traumatic events that may cause personal physical, mental, and emotional stress to the students in the classroom, but also to the professional working with these students. The stress, or what is sometimes called secondary traumatic stress, may affect the professional in their work with students in the classroom or manifest in their personal life. Self-care assessment and improvement strategies are important for professionals to use so they can continue to effectively support students.

School Counselor Behaviors: Direct and Indirect Student Services B-SS 1
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Microcredential ID : 3082
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Direct and Indirect Student Services 1. Candidates for this microcredential will show competency in designing and implementing instruction aligned to Utah College and Career Readiness Student Mindsets and Competencies in classroom, large-group, small-group and individual settings.

School Counselor Behaviors: Direct and Indirect Student Services B-SS 2
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Microcredential ID : 3083
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Direct and Indirect Student Services 2. Candidates for this microcredential show competency with providing appraisal and advisement in classroom/large-group, small-group, and individual settings with College and Career Readiness Plans.

School Counselor Behaviors: Direct and Indirect Student Services B-SS 3
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Microcredential ID : 3084
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Direct and Indirect Student Services 3. Candidates for this microcredential will show competency in providing short-term counseling in small-group and individual settings (Dropout Prevention with Social/Emotional Supports).

School Counselor Behaviors: Direct and Indirect Students Services B-SS 4
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Microcredential ID : 3085
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Direct and Indirect Student Services 4. Candidates for this microcredential will show competency that they make referrals to appropriate school and community resources.

School Counselor Behaviors: Planning and Assessment B-PA 2
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Microcredential ID : 3086
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Planning and Assessment 2. Candidates for this microcredential will submit evidence showing how they identify gaps in achievement, attendance, discipline, opportunity and resources.

School Counselor Behaviors: Planning and Assessment B-PA 6
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Microcredential ID : 3087
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AEL for School Counselors
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on Planning and Assessment 6. Candidates for this microcredential will show that they use time appropriately according to the Utah College and Career Readiness School Counseling Model and student/school data (85% Direct Services, R277-464).

Selecting Texts
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Microcredential ID : 2920
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Critically Selecting and Teaching Texts
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents educators' selection of high-quality, complex texts for the ELA classroom, including utilizing a range of informational and literary texts—across genres, periods, forms, authors, cultures, and various forms of media. This is the first microcredential in the Critically Selecting and Teaching Texts stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Self-Awareness
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Microcredential ID : 2688
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Social Emotional Learning for Adults
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents the self-awareness skills that are essential components of social and emotional learning. Adults who practice and model self-awareness are more effectively able to support students in developing these skills. Self-awareness is the ability to accurately identify and understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, personal and social identities, goals and values and how they influence behavior across contexts. It also includes the ability to accurately assess one’s strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism, and self-efficacy.

Self-Awareness
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Microcredential ID : 2691
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Social and Emotional Learning: Fostering SEL Skills in Students
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' instruction on self-awareness, an essential component of SEL. Self-awareness includes the ability to accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior. The ability to accurately assess one’s strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism, and a “growth mindset.” (CASEL.org)

Self-Management
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Microcredential ID : 2689
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Social Emotional Learning for Adults
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents the ability to successfully regulate one’s emotions and behaviors. Adults who practice and model self-management are more effectively able to support students in developing these skills. This includes the ability to delay gratification, manage stress and control impulses through coping. It also includes managing expressiveness, perseverance, and agency in addressing personal and group-level challenges. These skills allow individuals to achieve self- and collectively-defined goals and objectives.

Self-Management
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Microcredential ID : 2693
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Social and Emotional Learning: Fostering SEL Skills in Students
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on educators' instruction on self-management skills. Self-Management is the ability to regulate emotions and behaviors. This includes the ability to delay gratification, manage stress and control impulses through coping. It includes managing expressiveness, perseverance and agency in addressing personal and group-level challenges to achieve self- and collectively defined goals and objectives.

Student to Self Feedback
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Microcredential ID : 2657
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Feedback
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' support of the growth mindset that students need to persevere through the learning process. The process of self-assessment provides students with the evidence that will help them to identify ways to improve their work or ways to set goals for further learning. Student goals should be explicit and are like a road map to improvement.

Suicide, Self-Harm, Resources for Help
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Microcredential ID : 2932
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Health Endorsement: Mental and Emotional Health
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on suicide, self-harm, and resources for help. This microcredential fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Supporting Writers’ Self- and Peer-Evaluation of Writing
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Microcredential ID : 2991
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Teaching Text Creation
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent support of writers’ self-evaluation and peer evaluation of writing in process.

This is the sixth microcredential in the Teaching Text Creation stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy endorsement. It also fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Intervention endorsement.

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